IPO Withdrawal: Transoma Medical (TSMA)

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Transoma Medical, Inc. withdrew its IPO filing this morning, citing “unfavorable market conditions.” The company originally filed its IPO paperwork on October 12, 2007 and had planned to trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under symbol “TSMA.”  On last look it was going to sell some 4 million shares at $14 to $16 per share with Piper Jaffray and Thomas Weisel Partners listed as co-lead underwriters.

Transoma Medical is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and distributes wireless diagnostic and monitoring products in the chronic cardiovascular disease and biomedical research markets. They generated $37.2 million in revenues for year ending June 2007. They believed that the US market size for monitoring patients with syncope, refractory epilepsy and AF via their Sleuth ECG System is approximately $900 million. Perhaps they overestimated.

Transoma joins two other recent health care IPO withdrawals, Concentric Medical and Critical Homecare Solutions. However, the health care IPO market isn’t the only industry in need of some medical attention.  This week we have even seen a slowdown in the SPAC IPO’s, which you can tell if you check our IPO INDEX.

Rachel Lopez
February 22, 2008

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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